I cried my eyes out watching this movie. I totally loved it. I think it stripped down the truth. It was very touching regardless of what race/religion you are. I think it forshadowed the fact that we're all humans after all, humans who've got the same needs and desires, which are to just be able to live. All the characters in this movie just wanted to lead a nice life, with a well paying job and loving family. They had no business in complicated international policies, treaties or dirty politics, they just wanted to survive. This movie made me realize that we're all human kind and that most wars are stupid, cause-less and pointless. These wars are fueled by greedy dictators who's heads are up in space.
Any comments?
2006-07-11 09:09:45 · 6 answers · asked by I Am Jack's Wasted Life 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Not to put down your interpretation (I like it!), but I think there's a little more to it.
At the start of the movie the first Gulf War had just ended (at least for the Americans), and the Iraqi army had been pushed out of Kuwait and back into Iraq. But then Clooney and Wahlberg found a treasure map on a prisoner and decided to make a run for personal enrichment. It was supposed to be a quick dip across the Iraq border to pick up a stash of gold and then right back again to Kuwait with the loot. But then they got caught up in the chaos inside Iraq (Shiite uprisings being put down by Hussein's guards), got sucked in deeper and deeper, paid a higher and higher price for the gold, and then finally had to make a choice whether to keep the gold and let a group of Shiites die or ransom the Shiites with the gold. It was then that they learned the lesson you mentioned--that just getting back home in one piece is good too.
As for the anti-war message, that's debatable. The movie may have been a message about how poisonous war is. Or it could have been a message that America was wrong to stop at the Iraq border at the end of the first Gulf War and stand idly by in Kuwait while the Shiites were massacred inside Iraq. The message may have been that the Americans still had a role to play and people to save inside Iraq, even if the cost was high. (Keeping in mind that the movie was filmed before the recent invasion and occupation of Iraq.) A big part of the drama at the end of the movie was Clooney trying to convince the American forces to come across the border and safeguard the Shiites. The American general didn't want any part of it (his orders were not to get involved inside Iraq), until Clooney bribed him with the discovery of the gold and brought the female reporter on the scene to threaten the general with bad publicity.
In other words, the message might *also* have been that America, with all its military might, has an obligation to get involved and help the vulnerable. In other words: war is hell but sometimes it's necessary. But again, the politics of the movie were ambiguous and the message was kind of vague.
Just my own opinion, of course.
2006-07-11 10:40:09 · answer #1 · answered by Jim R 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Marky Mark's appearing became eloquent in worry, regardless of the indisputable fact that i trust that his performance in Boogie Nights became profoundly thoughts-blowing and ought to't understand why the Academy Award eluded him!!! What an actor, what a guy!!!
2016-11-06 05:34:50 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thats what you got out of the movie?! sheesh, pretty deep! uh, i really enjoyed it, but i didnt get so deep. just another movie that shows you money isnt everything, sometimes you gotta take a stand for something greater than gold
2006-07-11 10:10:56 · answer #3 · answered by aaronne07 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd see the movie cause Mark Wahlberg was in it. He is soooooo hot.
2006-07-11 09:13:29 · answer #4 · answered by musicgrlluvher 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good flick.. Loved Mark & George, they make a good team.
2006-07-11 09:27:33 · answer #5 · answered by Doll 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Amen you nailed it right on !!!!! I agree with you 100%
2006-07-11 09:14:03 · answer #6 · answered by midnightsmokerchic23 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋